The Sapphires (movie)

"The Sapphires," which opens Friday, is the crowd-pleasing, based-on-actual-people story of four young Aboriginal women who team up with a male Irish manager and perform for American troops in Vietnam, so it's covering its bases internationally.

The movie received a reported 10-minute standing ovation in its out-of-competition debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May and has played France, England and its native Australia, but for first-time director Wayne Blair and singer-star Jessica Mauboy — as well as the Weinstein Co., which bought most of the film's international rights at Cannes — the U.S. represents both a launch pad and spiritual homecoming.

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